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The Islamic State (IS) released a
video featuring British captive John Cantlie reporting from Kobani
about the group’s control over the city despite Western media
broadcasting the contrary.

The 5 minute, 32 second video, entitled, “Inside 'Ayn
al-Islam,” was produced by the IS’ al-I’tisaam Media Foundation, and was
distributed on Twitter on October 27, 2014. Cantlie, dressed in a black
outfit, stands atop a building in Kobani and speaks on what he sees
below him and in the distance, and claims that the IS has essentially
secured victory in the city.

He stated:

“Kobani is now being reinforced by Iraqi Kurds who are coming
in through Turkey, while the mujahideen are being resupplied by the
hopeless United States Air Forces, who parachuted two crates of weapons
and ammunition straight into the outstretched arms of the mujahideen.
Now the battle for Kobani is coming to an end. The mujahideen are just
mopping up now, street to street, and building to building. You can
occasionally hear erratic gunfire in the background as a result of those
operations. But contrary to what the Western media would have you
believe, it is not an all-out battle here now. It is nearly over. As you
can hear, it is very quiet, just the occasional gunfire.

“Two-hundred thousand inhabitants of the city have been
displaced because of the fighting that came here. You can see the
refugee camps over my right shoulder over there in Turkey, where the
inhabitants now are. But contrary to media reports, the fighting in
Kobani is nearly over“Urban warfare is as about as nasty and tough as it gets, and it’s something of a specialty of the mujahideen.”

Following is a transcript of the video:

0:00
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most MercifulInside 'Ayn al-Islam
0:20
[Aerial footage from "drone of the Islamic State Army"]
0:40
[John Cantlie]

Hello, I'm John Cantlie, and today we're in the city of Kobani on the
Syrian-Turkish border. That is in fact Turkey right behind me, and we
are here in the heart of the so-called PKK safe zone, which is now
controlled entirely by the Islamic State. For a month now, the soldiers
of the Islamic State have been besieging this key Kurdish city and,
despite continual American airstrikes, which have so far cost nearly
half a billion dollars in total, the mujahideen have pushed deep in the
heart of the city. They now control the eastern and southern sectors.

Now, the Western media, and I can't see any of their journalists here
in the city of Kobani, have been saying recently that the Islamic State
are on the retreat. In the last 48 hours, hundreds of Islamic State
militants have been reportedly killed in airstrikes, said the IB Times,
on the 16th of October. We now we've killed several hundred of them,
said John Kirby, the Pentagon official. The Islamic State is retreating
from the Syrian city of Kobani, said the BBC on October the 17th, while
Patrick Coburn said in The Independent that despite suffering serious
losses, the Islamic State was continuing its assault on the city.

Now this is all quite a turn-around from earlier in the month, when
U.S. officials were saying, and I quote: "The strategically unimportant
city of Kobani was going to fall into mujahideen hands in just a matter
of time. It's going to be difficult with just airpower to prevent the
Islamic State from taking the town, said U.S. National Security Advisor
Tony Blinken on the 10th of October.

Now, good ole John Kerry doesn't seem to think the mujahideen are
retreating. He called Kobani a "horrible example of the unwillingness of
people to help those who are fighting the Islamic State". Now that's a
dig at Kurd-hating Turkish President Erdogan.

But the point is, from where I'm standing right now, I can see large
swathes of the city, and I can even see the Turkish flag behind me, and
all I've seen here in the city of Kobani is mujahideen. There are no
YPG, PKK, or Peshmerga in sight. Just a large number of Islamic State
mujahideen, and they are definitely not on the run. Without any safe
access, there are no journalists here in the city. So the media are
getting their information from Kurdish commanders and White House press
secretaries, neither of whom have the slightest intention of telling the
truth of what is happening here on the ground. Now, airstrikes did
prevent some groups of mujahideen from using their tanks and heavy armor
as they would have liked, so they are entering the city and using light
weapons instead, going house to house.

Now America is very keen for Kobani to become a symbol - a symbol of
victory of the coalition that is working together to defeat the Islamic
State. But they now and the mujahideen also know that even with all
their airpower and all their proxy troops on the ground, even this is
not enough to defeat the Islamic State here in Kobani and elsewhere.

Kobani is now being reinforced by Iraqi Kurds who are coming in
through Turkey, while the mujahideen are being resupplied by the
hopeless United States Air Forces, who parachuted two crates of weapons
and ammunition straight into the outstretched arms of the mujahideen.
Now the battle for Kobani is coming to an end. The mujahideen are just
mopping up now, street to street, and building to building. You can
occasionally hear erratic gunfire in the background as a result of those
operations. But contrary to what the Western media would have you
believe, it is not an all-out battle here now. It is nearly over. As you
can hear, it is very quiet, just the occasional gunfire.

Two-hundred thousand inhabitants of the city have been displaced
because of the fighting that came here. You can see the refugee camps
over my right shoulder over there in Turkey, where the inhabitants now
are. But contrary to media reports, the fighting in Kobani is nearly
over
Urban warfare is as about as nasty and tough as it gets, and it’s something of a specialty of the mujahideen.

In the fifth episode of the Islamic
State’s (IS) video series “Lend Me Your Ears,” British captive John
Cantlie discussed his experience with fellow prisoners from America and
Europe, including fighters waterboarding them, and the “uncomfortable
truth” about the U.S. and Britain not negotiating for their release.

The 6 minute, 30 second video was produced by the IS’ al-Furqan Media
Foundation, and was distributed on Twitter on October 25, 2014. Cantlie
said that the IS began a “long-term” operation to capture Westerners
entering Syria in 2013 and then tried negotiating with their home
countries for their release. Here, he pointed out that nationals from
Denmark, Germany, and Spain were released through negotiations, but the
Americans and Britons were “stonewalled” by their respective
governments.

Cantlie read selections from alleged emails from prisoners’ families
and the IS where the families complained about the U.S. government not
helping. Cantlie remarked: “Now the recurring elements in these emails
is that the U.S. government was simply doing absolutely nothing to help
the families involved in this negotiation. The mujahideen told us our
governments didn't care about us and we didn't believe them. They told
us we were worthless and we didn't believe them. We were told we'd start
to die and we didn't believe that either. The human mind has an
incredibly tough capacity to self-defense in difficult situations. But
it was all true. Our governments had chose not to negotiate with the
Islamic State through our families and friends. And while everyone else
fulfilled the conditions for release, for us, there was no deal.”

Following is a transcript of the video:

Lend Me Your Ears

Messages from the British Detainee John Cantlie

Episode 5

Hello, I'm John Cantlie, the British citizen abandoned by my own
government, and a prisoner of the Islamic State for nearly two years.
In this program I'm going to reveal to you some uncomfortable truths
that have so far resulted in the executions of my former cellmates. Only
the American and British prisoners were left behind after months of
negotiations that saw 16 other citizens from six European countries go
home. How was this allowed to happen?
We have to go back to 2013 when the Islamic State launched a
long-term operation to capture Westerns entering Syria, and they began
the next phase of the operation: negotiating for our release with our
governments through families and friends. Now, unless we tried something
stupid like escaping or doing something we shouldn't, we were treated
well by the Islamic State. Some of us who tried to escape were
waterboarded by our captors, as Muslim prisoners are waterboarded by
their American captors.
Our strange little community of prisoners had its share of problems,
but apart from the odd fight, we lived together in relative harmony
through uncertain times. We read books, played recreational games, and
gave lectures on our specialist subjects. It wasn't a bad life.
The first to leave was my friend, Spanish journalist Marcus
Marjuneris in February 2014. The mujahideen then made their first strong
move by shooting one of our number, a Russian with no clean origin or
story behind him. The message was clear: don't mess around when it comes
to negotiations. The Europeans fell into line. Two more Spanish
journalists left, then four French at the end of April, their
representatives having fulfilled the conditions for their release.
But it was clear something was different for the British and
Americans. While there was dialogue for everyone else, the British and
Americans were stonewalled. It was completely silent. Nothing. Now we
knew our countries claim to be non-negotiating when it came to
situations like this, but often knew examples when they had negotiated
either under the table or through a third party. Due to the size and
complexity of this situation, and the number of other countries
involved, we believed our governments would get us out in the end. So we
waited patiently while everyone else went home to their loved ones.
Finally, we had movement in May. We made a video, wrote letters, and
made a voice-recording. For us, the Islamic State were asking for the
release of Muslim prisoners and their transfer to the Caliphate. It
sounded very complicated, but we were the biggest group from the biggest
countries. There had to be a negotiation going on. But by the time the
last two Europeans left, my friends Dan from Denmark - another
non-negotiating country - and Tony from Germany, it was clear to us we
were in very big trouble.
Now I have here a selection of emails between the Islamic State and
families back home. I don't have much on the British, so I assume there
was even less discussion going on for them, so this is really all about
the Americans and you'll see that really the government was doing
nothing, absolutely nothing, to help families involved. I have a message
here from one of the American prisoners on the 11th of June 2014:
"I would secure your sister Dr. Aafia Siddique's release if I could.
It sounds like you care about her freedom. You have surely seen the
news. Our government is a mess. They will not help."
There's another email here from the family of one of the American prisoners on the 17th of July 2014:
"Our government is not being helpful. We have begged them so many
times already. Everyone has buried their heads in the sand. We feel we
are caught in the middle between you and the U.S. government, and we are
being punished. We have reached out to our government, but they have
been non-responsive for some time now."
The person then goes on to say:
"We don't expect that we will get any help from our government at all, and we feel foolish for believing them."
There's a message from the family of one of the American prisoners on the 24th of July 2014:
"We are contacting people everyday. You've given us a huge mountain
to climb, and we feel like a pawn in this political battle that we've
been forced into. I'm taking everything you have said seriously, and I'm
working as fast as I can. I need more time."
Now the recurring elements in these emails is that the U.S.
government was simply doing absolutely nothing to help the families
involved in this negotiation. The mujahideen told us our governments
didn't care about us and we didn't believe them. They told us we were
worthless and we didn't believe them. We were told we'd start to die and
we didn't believe that either. The human mind has an incredibly tough
capacity to self-defense in difficult situations. But it was all true.
Our governments had chose not to negotiate with the Islamic State
through our families and friends. And while everyone else fulfilled the
conditions for release, for us, there was no deal.
Join me in the next program as we learn about a failed rescue that
tried to get us out, and you'll hear about how one soldier was worth
five prisoners and we were worth none.